Author Archives: Pearl

I mentioned some things from the Writers Fest’s poetry cabarets at Humanyms. Further from that time with Monty Reid, Dannabang Kuwabong, Meredith Quartermain, moderated by Rhonda Douglas… On the question of writing as catharsis and healing, Monty Reid said, yes and no. It can be, in the process of writing, but ironically enough to publish […]

Curtis Dunlap related the news. Sadly veteran haiku poet Bill Higginson passed on. f/k/a has a tribute to Higginson. Words can be left in memory there, and another space at the Australian Haiku Society. Higginson was in Ottawa for the 2007 Haiku Canada Conference. Higginson did a photo essay of the weekend. When I met […]

I can find more than enough poetry event programming in conflicting time slots locally, surely, Thursday and Friday alone, without looking to do the same in two more cities. The season launch of BookThug (motto “Our books aren’t for anybody — so we encourage you to become somebody today.”) is November 18th. Opposite it is […]

Locus Novus is an online synthesis of text and sound of text and image. It is made by collaborating people to make movie poems. It uses the potential of the online medium to add motion, movies, soundtrack and have sometimes mutating, mobile, text is the star. For example in life imagined as a slither of […]

Saturday October 18, 2008 Saturday December 13 Heartwood House (153 Chapel Street, Ottawa) Dusty Owl Workshops Learning to Repeat Yourself Well (9am- 12pm) Pearl Pirie spent a decade teaching in adult education. Her articles on teaching and on poetry have been published in print and online since the mid-nineties. This is a workshop that will […]